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Menhera is not (just) a Fashion

I’ve been trying to write up a longer version of this but since it keeps coming up I thought I’d just throw this together now.

I don’t know what the preferred dictionary is these days but let’s go with Oxford:

Fashion [noun] - 1. A popular or the latest style of clothing, hair, decoration, or behaviour. 1.1 The production and marketing of new styles of clothing and cosmetics.

Now how about “movement”:

Movement [noun] - 2. A change or development. ‘The movement towards greater sexual equality’ 3. A group of people working together to advance their shared political, social, or artistic ideas. 3.1 A campaign undertaken by a political, social, or artistic movement. ‘A movement to declare war on poverty’

Menhera is a movement.

And it always has been,

Menhera has existed for some 18 years now, long before the fashion element of it emerged. It’s always been about dealing with and fixing society’s contribution to poor mental health. Wearing the fashion without that consideration is just not menhera.

If you’re after an aesthetic/fashion of menhera without the “strict” rules (the “gatekeeping”) and campaigning, use an aesthetic label such as “yamikawaii”.

For more information on the Menhera Movement and its origins: http://fymenhera.tumblr.com/post/172765486847/menhera-as-art-and-subculture

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Anonymous asked:

Why does this try to make sickness something cute?

fymenhera-deactivated20181216 answered:

…why do a lot of people automatically assume that the combination cute+sick is about “making illness cute”?

Kawaii culture has become a big part of Japan’s society; it influences tv shows, design, advertisment, etc by turning “kawaii” into a selling point that is telling you that, by consuming the product, you will magically have the perfect, happy anime life. “Pretty people can’t have a difficult life”, “Someone depressed won’t be able to look cute” and similar are very common things to hear and it’s even worse if you are into kawaii fashion as they will doubt your illness even more based on the way you dress.

It’s not the illness that is made cute - it’s showing that cute people aren’t immune to suffering as illness can hit everyone and that denying someone’s suffering, only because they don’t “look” like it, is dangerous and harmful.